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Saint Barthélemy (French: Saint-Barthélemy; Swedish: Sankt Barthelemy), officially the Collectivity of Saint Barthélemy (French: Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy), is an overseas collectivity of France. Often abbreviated to Saint-Barth in French, or St. Barts in English, the collectivity is one of the four territories among the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean that comprise the French West Indies, along with Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Martin.
Saint Barthélemy has an area of 21 km² and a population of 8,398 (census 2006).
Its capital is Gustavia, which is also its main harbour.
It is the only Caribbean island to have historically been a Swedish colony for any significant length of time (Guadeloupe only having been one briefly, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars). The Swedish influence can still be found in architecture and street names. The language, cuisine and culture are now distinctly French, and the official language is French.
The currency is the euro.
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